Bug#636668: kfreebsd-amd64: various failures
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.2.1/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.2.1-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: DELL PowerEdge
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Hello,
Just tried to install kfreebsd-amd64 on a DELL PowerEdge, and it was
quite a failure.
- The Broadcom 14e4:164c card is not recognized, because the bce driver
is disabled due to firmware blob. Since this was a netinst, I
installed without network.
- The hard disk was properly discovered, but the partitioning step was
awfully slow. I noticed on console 4 that it was complaining about
partitions not being properly aligned on slices, about 5 times, one
per second. There was indeed an already-installer Debian Linux System,
which I was overwriting. It seemed like the existing partitioning
disturbed partman to the point that it kept being busy for 5 seconds
(spitting the warning every second) at basically each step, thus
making the whole process extremely long.
I had chosen ZFS everywhere, and a separate /var and /usr,
- Installation then proceeded fine.
- The boot loader step failed at first. console 4 was complaining that
/boot/zfs wasn't existing. I mkdired it by hand, and then it proceeded
fine.
- It rebooted fine, I configured the serial console in both grub and
inittab/securetty.
- However, /usr and /var were not mounted. Actually /etc/fstab did not
even mention them. I tried to mount them by hand, but even though the
zfs module is loaded, I failed to manage to mount them. I've tried the
following:
root@hermes:/# mount /dev/da0s8 /usr
mount: /dev/da0s8 : Invalid argument
root@hermes:/# mount /dev/da0s8 /usr -t zfs
mount: /dev/da0s8 : Invalid argument
root@hermes:/# mount /dev/da0s8 /usr -t zfs -o local
mount: /dev/da0s8 : Invalid argument
I know very little about kfreebsd, so maybe I am missing some way to
mount it in a more low-level way.
- The zfsutils package is not installed (though I do remember having
seen in the log that partman scheduled its installation, but
apparently the .deb is not on the netinst CD)
- Trying to mount a CD brought me:
root@hermes:/# mount /dev/cd0 /mnt/mnt -t cd9660
mount_cd9660: error while loading shared libraries: libkiconv.so.4: cannot ope
which is indeed supposed to be in /usr/lib
- A last concern is that the hardware network console (BMC) is on COM2,
not COM1, so the -h option to the kernel is not enough to get console
there.
Samuel
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Installer hardware-summary:
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uname -a: GNU/kFreeBSD hermes 8.1-1-amd64 #0 Mon Feb 21 22:03:13 UTC 2011 x86_64 amd64 InD
lspci
00:10.2 8086:25f0 [0600] Host Bridge
00:11.0 8086:25f1 [0600] Host Bridge
00:13.0 8086:25f3 [0600] Host Bridge
00:15.0 8086:25f5 [0600] Host Bridge
00:16.0 8086:25f6 [0600] Host Bridge
00:1c.0 8086:2690 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
00:1d.0 8086:2688 [0c03] USB Controller
00:1d.1 8086:2689 [0c03] USB Controller
00:1d.2 8086:268a [0c03] USB Controller
00:1d.7 8086:268c [0c03] USB Controller [PI 20]
00:1e.0 8086:244e [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge [PI 01]
00:1f.0 8086:2670 [0601] ISA Bridge
00:1f.1 8086:269e [0101] IDE Controller [PI 8a]
01:00.0 8086:032c [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
02:08.0 1000:0054 [0100] SCSI Controller
03:00.0 1166:0103 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
04:00.0 14e4:164c [0200] Ethernet Controller
05:00.0 8086:3500 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
05:00.3 8086:350c [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
06:00.0 8086:3510 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
06:01.0 8086:3514 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
07:00.0 1166:0103 [0604] PCI-PCI Bridge
08:00.0 14e4:164c [0200] Ethernet Controller
0f:0d.0 1002:515e [0300] VGA Controller
lsmod:
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 9 0xffffffff80200000 bf3000 kfreebsd-8.1-1-amd64.gz
2 2 0xffffffff80f88000 2eae opensolaris.ko
3 1 0xffffffff80f8b000 1901df zfs.ko
Samuel
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